Monday, December 29, 2008

Trent Lott: "Ambitious Obama Presidency May Impair Progress"

Trent Lott says Obama's "greatest danger" is his ambition to do too much. In order to not "overplay his hand," Lott advises the President-elect to prioritize the economic stimulus plan without neglecting infrastructure, labor and health care issues. uh yeah... whatever

Sometimes you want a cloudy day

"When rain has wet the kite twine so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it streams out plentifully from the key at the approach of your knuckle, and with this key a phial, or Leiden jar, maybe charged: and from electric fire thus obtained spirits may be kindled, and all other electric experiments [may be] performed which are usually done by the help of a rubber glass globe or tube; and therefore the sameness of the electrical matter with that of lightening completely demonstrated."